Philosophical Research:Schizophrenic point of view

For the purposes of analyzing philosophies, signifiers may take the form of jargon terms, ordinary words employed in recognizable but highly-specific usages, repeated quotes from older texts, repeated in-text citations or prior work titles, or images with controversial meanings across different philosophies. For instance, "Stalin's government" could be considered a signifier because within the broad field of Marxist discourse Trotskyists and Stalin followers interpret the significance of the image differently and attach different underlying models of real-world function to it. If it happens that these models are so drastically different they hardly even resemble each other, the Signifier-item is best divided into two separate Signifiers, such as "Stalin's government (Trotskyism)" and "Stalin's government (Stalin Thought)". Using this method of combining relatively-ordinary or widespread usages and disambiguating tags, controversies can be exposed which are normally invisible within the bounds of particular philosophies. It can be argued that projects such as Wikipedia suffer from the inability to package themselves in localized, biased language familiar to real-world readers, who may look at the neutral framings of Wikipedia, regard them as foreign to their particular philosophy and experience, and reject the whole project as "biased" or "improperly infiltrated by mainstream thought". However, if a project instead decides to forego pretending that neutrality through a single point of view is possible and simply express itself in several different biased framings at once, it becomes easier to illuminate the differences between various different biased ideologies and the relationship of each ideology to material reality and what is most likely to be true.

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Perhaps you have heard of particular projects having "Neutral point of view"

there is just one problem: most people have an internal monologue and internal series of associations particular to them, and don't carry multiple plural voices inside their heads

this leads ordinary people to all sorts of bias and prejudice against any philosophy or model they do not already explicitly believe

that's a problem for an encyclopedia: to be objective or neutral we must first be able to think and evaluate different hypotheses. but fundamentally, a great portion of people are not allowed to think. their ties to other people or specific organizations that sustain their lives prevent them from considering other philosophies.

morality cannot solve this - Vegeta effect

Conservapedia

It is easy to argue that in a world made of plural populations all practicing different internal philosophies neutrality is a material impossibility

How can the world prevent Conservapedias? Why, by following Schizophrenic point of view!

can Communism and nationalism live in harmony? well, they can on an encyclopedia page, if not necessarily anywhere else. so too is the case with mainstream Marxism-Leninism and Trotskyism, Marxism and the Existentialist-Structuralist tradition of analytic philosophy, and so on.

is this a postmodern nightmare? you bet it is. but the world did it first, and an encyclopedia must document the world.

This article may sound funny but it's genuinely not meant as satire

Lexemes

The ideal Lexeme item is created specifically because a term has at least two different opposing definitions. For example: language. In everyday usage, language can be defined as a prescriptive system belonging to a particular group of people, or a descriptive system belonging to multiple groups of people, leading to contradictory assertions that terms like ain't or facticity are "not words" within the English language and "not part of language" versus other assertions that because someone uses them they are "inherently part of language". To begin resolving this contradiction, we create a Lexeme item for "language" containing both of these definitions and tagging them with their appropriate ideology or philosophy.

language
1. a method of communication based around associations between signs and concepts or between signs and other signs
2. (structuralist linguistics) a descriptive system of rules by which further consistent rules for communication are constructed: see descriptive linguistics
3. (Toryism) a prescriptive system of rules for communication tightly associated with a particular unique nationality or social graph: see linguistic prescriptivism

This helps resolve conflicts that may occur when editing more complex ontologies in the main Item namespace: "I mean language as in prescriptivism!" Should a new user come along who for some reason is not content with the primary model of a given concept and wishes to edit a different model of it, this user can then point the alternate model of "language" to Lexeme Sense L100-S3. As much as this capability may seem alarming to the uninitiated, appearing to open all the proverbial floodgates for the legitimacy of all reactionary ideologies and strip words of their meaning, it has many valid uses by members of progressive ideologies such as disambiguating reactionary meanings from intended meanings and studying the history or formation of reactionary meanings and models. With other tools such as the F2 Statement category, particular models may be marked as incorrect or outdated in relation to real-world observations, and Lexemes become convenient disambiguation landings for separating fact from conspiracy theory.

Items

Basic Items

S1 Signifier Items

S2 Signifier Items

S2 Signifier Items should be considered to frequently represent statements of opinion specific to a particular group of people; in one sense, their purpose is orthogonal to the concept of neutrality.

it is okay to name S2 Signifiers in a slanted way appropriate to the ontological perspective of the group of people who would state it as long as the bias is not a rhetorical statement prohibiting the existence of other S2 Signifiers on the same topic. if a particular S2 Signifier legitimately has two possible meanings to different ideologies or theoretical models in the manner of a Lexeme, then its current name should be demoted to an alias and it should be renamed to something more dry and objective.

S0 Signifier Items

Cold Wars are prohibited

meta-Marxism, not MDem

People-groups and racism

it's quite easy for any ontology project, from analytic philosophy to machine learning to this, to bake in biases against particular demographic identities

anti-essentialism
- watch out for stereotypes and quarantine them into S2 statements
mark potentially offensive statements with their ideology: (Toryism) etc
mark any statements known to be factually/testably incorrect as f2
give references for why statements are f2
- the more people gripe about an f2 status, the more references go on the f2 statement
- seek out widely-available print sources - literally find one at your town library
  - wikipedia absolutely doesn't do this enough
- seek out local community centers and their materials
  - outright seek out church brochures